On Apr 10, 7:00=A0am, Juha Nieminen <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Chris Thomasson wrote:
> >> =A0I disagree with that. It is the language's fault. C just makes it
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> >> too easy to leak memory.
>
> > Makes it easy for who to leak memory? The programmer is required to
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> > allocated memory. If he/she does not do that, how can you blame the
> > language?
>
> =A0 Because the programmer shouldn't be required to manually free the
> memory. This is a task for the compiler, not the programmer. If the
> language requires that the programmer frees the memory, then it's the
> fault of the language.
One man's fault is another man's feature. Some people like fine
grained control over memory allocation, and don't want garbage
collectors firing up at unpredictable times.
